@blocktrades, let the market decides what the price of HBD is, in my view.
In my view, trying to regulate something/ peg something to fiat, etc. is simply an intervention against the principles of the free market that may damage the ecosystem.
Also, I would like to say that most of the people on the HIVE blockchain live outside the U.S. It means that most of us don't care about the value of the U.S. dollar. For me, it is not important what 1 HBD in U.S. dollar terms is. In my part of the world, we don't use USD and don't pay attention to it. That's why for me it will be irrelevant if HBD is pegged to 1 USD. Even, I will consider it as something negative. Also, I want to say that most of the HIVE-rs from my small city I communicate with either price their crypto in HIVE or BTC/ETH. That's why it would be much better if the price of HBD is backed/pegged to Bitcoin.
RE: Proposed hardfork change to stabilize Hive Dollar’s tracking of USD value